This portal supports online collaboration and disseminates the results of the following projects:

Collection Development Collection building activities of the IISH in the field of social movements in six regions of the world.

Fighting for a Living Subtitle: Origins, practices and consequences of different forms of military employment in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (1500-2000). The purpose of the project, part of the IISH research programme "Global Labour History", is to investigate the circumstances which have produced starkly different systems of recruiting soldiers in a range of different parts of the globe, as well as to analyze the social and political implications that the different systems have had in a number of states and societies.

Global Shipbuilding The project intends to study shipbuilding labour around the world from World War II until the present from a global history perspective. We will track the relocation of production and analyse its consequences to workforces in Europe, North and South America, and in East Asia from the 1980s onwards.

History of Prostitution This project attempts to achieve a comprehensive overview on prostitution from a global labour history perspective. It studies prostitution as a societal phenomenon as well as a form of labour, and focuses, therefore, on prostitutes' working/living conditions and work culture.

HiTiME Subtitle: Historical Timeline Mining and Extraction. The purpose of the project, part of NWO's CATCH programme (Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage), is to develop a text analysis system for the recognition and extraction of historical events and facts from historical sources.

HOPE - Heritage of the People’s Europe The purpose of the project is to implement best practices and a shared technological infrastructure for improving access to social history collections in Europe.